The list below is from the book 100 Spiritual Leaders Who Shaped World History, Bluewood Books (2001), written by Samuel Crompton.
The 100 influential spiritual/religious figures in this book are not ranked relative to each other. They are listed chronologically by date of birth.
| Abraham | c. 1800 B.C. | |
| Akhenaten | c. MID-1300s B.C. | |
| Moses | c. 1200 B.C. | |
| Zoroaster | 630-553 B.C. | |
| Mahavira | c. 599-527 B.C. | |
| Lao-TZU | c. 575-485 B.C. | |
| The Buddha (Siddhartha Gautam) | c. 563-483 B.C. | |
| Confucius (Kung-Fu-TZU) | c. 551-479 B.C. | |
| Socrates | c. 470-399 B.C. | |
| Zeno | c. 335-263 B.C. | |
| Hillel | c. 60 B. C.-A.D. 9 | |
| Mary, Mother of Jusus Christ | c. 22 B. C.- A.D.? | |
| Jesus Christ | c. 4 B. C. -A.D. 29 | |
| St. Paul | A.D. 5-67 | |
| Mani | A.D. 216-C. 276 | |
| St. Helena | c. A.D. 250-330 | |
| Arius | c. A.D. 256-336 | |
| St. Augustine of Hippo | A.D. 354-430 | |
| Nestorius | c. A.D. 381-C. 451 | |
| St. Patrick | c. A.D. 390-460 | Catholic |
| St. Benedict of Nursia | c. A.D. 480-C. 550 | |
| St. Columba | c. A.D. 521-597 | |
| Muhammad | A.D. 570-632 | |
| Hsuan-Tsang | c. A.D. 602-664 | |
| St. Boniface | c. A.D. 675-754 | |
| Rabi'AH | c. A.D. 730-801 | |
| Kukai | A.D. 774-835 | |
| St. Methodius St. Cyril | A.D. 815-885 c. A.D. 827-869 | |
| Naropa | 1016-1100 | |
| Al-Ghazali | 1058-1111 | |
| St. Bernard of Clairvaux | 1090-1153 | |
| Hildegard of Bingen | 1098-1179 | |
| Maimonides | 1135-1204 | |
| St. Francis of Assisi | c. 1181-1226 | |
| Dogen | 1200-1253 | |
| Rumi (Jalal Al-DIN) | 1207-1273 | |
| St. Thomas Aquinas | c. 1225-1274 | |
| Moses De Leon | c. 1240-1305 | |
| Meister Eckhart | c. 1260-1327 | |
| Gregory Palamas | c. 1296-1359 | |
| John Wycliffe | c. 1320-1384 | |
| Julian of Norwich | 1342-1416 | |
| Jan Hus | c. 1369-1415 | |
| Joan of ARC | 1412-1431 | |
| Kabir | c. 1440-1518 | |
| Guru Nanak | 1469-C. 1539 | |
| Bartolome De Las Casas | 1474-1564 | |
| Martin Luther | 1483-1546 | |
| Ulrich Zwingli | 1484-1531 | |
| Thomas Cranmer | 1489-1556 | |
| St. Ignatius of Loyola | c. 1491-1556 | |
| William Tyndale | c. 1494-1536 | |
| Conrad Grebel | c. 1498-1526 | |
| St. Francis Xavier | 1506-1552 | |
| John Calvin | 1509-1564 | |
| St. Teresa of Avila | 1515-1582 | |
| Hiawatha | C.1500s | |
| Isaac Luria | 1534-1572 | |
| Sonam Gyatso, The Third Dalai Lama | 1543-1588 | |
| St. Martin De Porres | 1579-1639 | |
| Anne Hutchinson | 1591-1643 | |
| George Fox | 1624-1691 | |
| Emanuel Swedenborg | 1688-1772 | |
| Baal Shem Tov (Besht) | c. 1700-1760 | |
| John Wesley | 1703-1791 | |
| George Whitefield | 1714-1770 | |
| Elijah Ben Solomon | 1720-1797 | |
| Moses Mendelssohn | 1729-1786 | |
| Mother Ann Lee | 1736-1784 | |
| St. Seraphim of Sarov | 1759-1833 | |
| Innokentii Veniaminov | 1797-1879 | |
| Joseph Smith | 1805-1844 | |
| Baha' Allah | 1817-1892 | |
| Mary Baker Eddy | 1821-1910 | |
| Helena Petrovna Blavatsky | 1831-1891 | |
| Ramakrishna | 1836-1886 | |
| Dwight Lyman Moody | 1837-1899 | |
| Rudolf Steiner | 1861-1925 | |
| Vivekananda | 1863-1902 | |
| Mohandas Gandhi | 1869-1948 | |
| Albert Schweitzer | 1875-1965 | |
| Edgar Cayce | 1877-1945 | |
| Martin Buber | 1878-1965 | |
| Angelo Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) | 1881-1963 | |
| Kahlil Gibran | 1883-1931 | |
| Paul Tillich | 1886-1965 | |
| William Griffith Wilson (Bill W.) | 1895-1971 | |
| Dorothy Day | 1897-1980 | |
| C. S. Lewis | 1898-1963 | |
| Ruhollah Hendi (Ayatollah Khomeini) | 1900-1989 | |
| Mother Teresa | 1910-1997 | |
| L. Ron Hubbard | 1911-1986 | |
| Thomas Merton | 1915-1968 | |
| Alan Watts | 1915-1973 | |
| Oscar Romero | 1917-1980 | |
| Billy Graham | 1918- | |
| Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II) | 1920- | |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1929-1968 | |
| Desmond Tutu | 1931- | |
| Tenzin Gyatso, The Fourteenth Dalai Lama | 1935- |